The House returned from recess and spent its week on socialism resolutions, mining permits, whales, the Supreme Court, and a bill punishing colleges for boycotting Israel. Nobody voted on the premiums that just went up 58%. Here is every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
H.Res. 1490 passed 220-192. It changes no law and spends no money. Its one concrete demand is the SAVE America Act, a proof-of-citizenship rule of the kind Kansas tried — where 31,089 people could not register, against 39 confirmed noncitizens the state found in the previous 14 years. 189 members with a page on this site voted yes.
The House voted September 2 on a constitutional amendment freezing the Supreme Court at nine justices. The Constitution never set that number — Congress did, and has changed it five times. Here is every Republican with a report card who voted yes.
New Jerseyans are paying for it. A majority of North Jersey businesses told the New York Fed they had raised prices because of the tariffs, and one New Jersey entrepreneur called them "literally business-busting."
Days after Trump imposed tariffs on nearly every country on Earth, Van Drew went on Fox News to back him: "He is doing the right thing." It "might be slightly painful in the beginning," Van Drew allowed, "but it's going to be better in the end." His advice to worried viewers watching trillions of dollars evaporate from the markets: "Hang tough just for a little bit of time."
We are feeling this directly in our wallets. What is Jeff Van Drew doing about that? Making things worse. We deserve better.
We all deserve access to quality healthcare so we can live healthy and productive lives.
Jeff Van Drew disagrees:
He voted to cut more than $1 trillion in federal health care and food assistance as part of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act"
New Jersey stands to lose $3.6 billion in annual federal Medicaid funding under Trump's budget bill — and about 350,000 New Jerseyans, nearly 1 in 5 Medicaid recipients, could lose their health coverage.
On May 22, 2025, Van Drew voted to pass Trump's budget bill and its Medicaid cuts. It cleared the House by a single vote, 215 to 214 — had he voted no, it would have failed.
The cuts he voted for hit his own district: an estimated 30,460 people in NJ-02 are projected to lose their health coverage — 12,500 losing ACA coverage and 17,960 losing Medicaid. The president and CEO of the New Jersey Hospital Association warned that "everything is on the table" — curtailing services, reducing workforce, delaying infrastructure improvements — noting that the previous largest health care cut in a generation "plunged more than half of NJ hospitals into the red. Some closed their doors for good."
We need healthcare to live. Literally. What is Jeff Van Drew doing to help us? Making things worse. We deserve better.
Wants to Gut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security
Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security aren't handouts. They're earned benefits that we pay into out of every single paycheck, our entire working lives, so that we can see a doctor, take care of our parents, and retire with dignity instead of going bankrupt when we get old or sick.
For years, Jeff Van Drew and his party have been quietly laying the groundwork to gut these programs. Now they've said the quiet part out loud.
They admitted the plan. Speaker Mike Johnson told the "Moon Griffon Show" that "entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and things like Social Security ... have to be adjusted and fixed," and that "We have a plan to do that next year ... desperate times call for desperate measures."
We know what the plan looks like. The Republican Study Committee — a caucus of more than 170 House Republicans that includes Speaker Johnson and his top three deputies in leadership — released a budget calling for raising the Social Security retirement age for future retirees and converting Medicare into a privatized "premium support" model that would hand seniors over to for-profit insurance companies.
They already started. The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that Jeff Van Drew supported cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid to help pay for tax cuts for the richest 1 percent.
Even Republicans admit what "reform" means. Sen. Josh Hawley, on the push to "address" and "reform" these programs: "That's usually code for 'cut.' I'm not in favor of that."
It's a broken promise. Donald Trump pledged in 2024, "I will never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare." Jeff Van Drew and his party are now preparing to do exactly that.
Van Drew signed a letter opposing deep cuts to Medicaid — then voted for the bill making the largest Medicaid cuts in modern history. That same bill expanded Section 199A, the pass-through tax deduction, and Van Drew was one of six letter-signers who had reported income that stands to benefit from the expansion.
These programs are a promise: work hard, pay in your whole life, and your country will be there for you when you need it. Jeff Van Drew wants to break that promise so he can keep cutting taxes for billionaires. We deserve better.
Cut Taxes for the Rich, While the Rest of Us Pay For It
We all need to pay our fair share to the government so it can provide the services that benefit all of us.
But billionaires in the U.S. pay a smaller tax rate than most teachers and nurses. That's not fair.
The wealthiest 400 billionaire families in the U.S. paid an average federal individual tax rate of just 8.2 percent. For comparison, the average American taxpayer in the same year paid 13 percent.
23 of the largest and most profitable companies in the US paid no federal corporate income taxes from 2018-2022. And 109 corporations paid zero federal tax in at least one of those years.
The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that Jeff Van Drew supported will reduce taxes for the top 1 percent of taxpayers by more than $1 trillion over the next decade, while raising taxes for the poorest Americans.
Jeff Van Drew is on the side of the billionaires and big business. We deserve better.
We all deserve clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet to live on.
Jeff Van Drew has supported the repealing and rolling back of environmental protections and climate change regulations, all so that billionaires and big business can plunder natural resources and destroy our environment in the name of profit.
In New Jersey, about 827,600 citizens receive SNAP benefits every month (8.7% of the population)
Over 36,000 households — making up about 11.6% of all households in his district — relied on SNAP to afford groceries, including 18,152 households with children and 15,620 with someone 60 or older, according to USDA data. Van Drew voted for the largest SNAP cut in history anyway.
Jeff Van Drew doesn't care if we go hungry. We deserve better.
Is Intentionally Wrecking Our Public Schools and Our Kids' Futures
Nine out of ten American children — 49.6 million of them — go to a public school. It's where they learn to read, where they eat breakfast and lunch, where kids with disabilities are guaranteed an education by law, and where a kid from any family, rich or poor, religious or not, gets a fair shot.
Jeff Van Drew and his party are taking that apart on purpose: draining public school money into private and religious schools, pushing one religion into everybody else's classrooms, and shutting down the federal department that is supposed to look out for our kids.
He voted to create the first national private school voucher in American history. It is hidden inside the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act." You give up to $1,700 a year to a charity that hands out private school scholarships, and the government gives you back every penny you gave on your taxes. It costs you nothing — no other tax break in the country works that way. Each person is capped at $1,700, but any number of people can do it, so there is no limit on what it drains from the Treasury. It starts January 1, 2027. Congress's own scorekeepers say $26 billion over ten years; one tax research group says as much as $51 billion every year — more than the government spends on Title I ($18.4 billion) for poor schools and IDEA ($14.6 billion) for kids with disabilities combined. And "low-income" means a family earning three times what a normal family in their area earns still qualifies — in some places, $500,000 a year.
They are giving away our tax dollars to families who are already wealthy and were never in public school to begin with. Every state that has tried it gets the same result — the money goes to people already paying private tuition: 95% of Arkansas voucher users never attended a public school. In Florida's first year of universal vouchers, 69% of new recipients were already in private school and only 13% had ever set foot in a public one. In Iowa, two-thirds were already in private school. We aren't rescuing kids from bad schools — we're cutting checks to families who never needed them, with the money coming out of the schools 90% of our kids actually attend.
And the kids who do switch end up doing worse. Four careful studies found the same thing. In Washington, DC, voucher kids fell behind in math. In Louisiana, a student who started in the middle of the class dropped to the bottom third in math after three years. Indiana and Ohio found the same. Kids with disabilities lost the most.
The money goes to religious schools that can turn our kids away. Ohio now spends nearly $1 billion a year on vouchers, the vast majority going to Catholic and evangelical schools — schools that, unlike public schools, can reject your child over their religion, their disability, or who their parents are, or for ANY REASON AT ALL with almost no accountability for the public money they take. Many have simply raised tuition to capture the vouchers instead of enrolling more students.
Our public schools took generations to build, and they are the one institution that has to take every single child who walks in the door. Jeff Van Drew is helping tear them down and hand the pieces to private interests. Our kids will pay for it for the rest of their lives. We deserve better.
A good job where we can make a living to support our families, own a home, and have a good life. That's the American Dream.
Jeff Van Drew supports policies and an administration that are turning the American Dream into a nightmare.
There were 20.8 million layoffs in the U.S. in 2025
55% of employed Americans say they're concerned about losing their jobs
The unemployment rate is 4.2%
In 2025 the U.S. economy averaged just 15,000 jobs added per month, a dramatic decrease from the monthly average of 125,000 the year before Trump took office.
Overall employment for workers without college degrees fell by 361,000 jobs from January to September 2025.
58,000 net manufacturing jobs have been lost from April, when the administration announced "Liberation Day" tariffs, to September 2025.
Works for Billionaires, Big Business & Special Interests and Not for Us
Our elected officials should work for us, the people.
Jeff Van Drew works for his own industry's lobby, not for us. Van Drew is a dentist, and the American Dental Association bankrolls him — its super PAC spent $237,648 to elect him, on top of $36,950 given directly by its regular PAC. That one profession has put more behind him than any other interest. He also sits on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and the construction unions and trade groups that depend on it fund him too. Look at who some of his top funders are:
The American Dental Association's super PAC spent $237,648 supporting him — a committee funded entirely by the ADA's own PAC and education fund, spending to put a dentist in Congress
The dental industry also gave directly: the American Dental Association's PAC ($36,950) and the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
Pro-Israel PACs, led by AIPAC — $87,921
The Operating Engineers — $35,000 from a union whose members' work depends on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee he sits on
The National Association of Realtors — $32,000
The Plumbers and Pipefitters
Steve Scalise's Eye of the Tiger PAC — Republican leadership money
The NRCC — $103,800 from the House Republicans' campaign arm
Jeff Van Drew is funded by billionaires, big business and special interests. No wonder he's not doing anything to improve OUR lives. We deserve better.
Let Elon Musk and DOGE Cut More Than $712 MILLION from New Jersey
We all want a government that works for us as efficiently and effectively as possible. Unfortunately our government doesn't always work that way, so reform is badly needed. Given how big and complicated the government is, it's a tough problem that needs well-thought out solutions, so that we don't make things worse.
That's not what we got.
Jeff Van Drew stood idly by while billionaire and ketamine-addled chaos monkey Elon Musk and his DOGE goons chainsawed their way through the U.S. government, promising to save the government at least $2 trillion annually in waste, fraud and abuse. Because they had no idea what they were doing and no one to stop them, in the end our government suffered, people suffered, New Jersey suffered, government spending actually went UP and Elon Musk became even richer.
Elon Musk and DOGE:
Had access to and exfiltrated (stole) all our sensitive personal information.
Kneecapped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which had returned over $26 billion to the American people since 2011.
Attempted to cut $4 billion in funding for medical research.
Will cost the federal government an estimated $500 billion in lost tax revenue (that could pay for programs for us), due to cuts at the IRS.
Laid waste to the employees at several government departments, removing their top experts and most skilled practitioners, and making their services less effective for all of us. This badly affected veterans, who make up 30% of the federal workforce.
DOGE cut $350 million in federal grants from New Jersey's health and human services departments — eliminating disease monitoring, vaccination programs, mental health services, and substance abuse treatment.
Van Drew put out a statement backing DOGE on February 7, 2025 — "Washington bureaucrats have been wasting the American people's hard-earned money for far too long, and it is time for that to stop" — and told New Jerseyans the cuts should be made "with a scalpel, not a sledgehammer." Musk brought a chainsaw, and Van Drew did nothing about it.
We'd like to thank you, Jeff Van Drew, for doing absolutely nothing while an unelected South African big tech billionaire took a chainsaw to vital U.S. government functions and completely failed to make the government more efficient. We deserve better.
As a member of Congress, part of Jeff Van Drew's job is to act as a check and balance to the executive branch. He and his fellow members of Congress from New Jersey have completely abdicated their responsibility. These spineless cowards are rubber stamping everything Donald Trump wants to do, no matter how crazy, dangerous or harmful. And we've seen the results. We deserve better.
We deserve to feel safe in our neighborhoods, schools, and places of worship.
In order to do that, we need to take real steps to prevent gun violence. And despite what we've been told, it is possible to support the 2nd Amendment and support common-sense gun safety laws at the same time. But Jeff Van Drew has opposed bipartisan gun safety laws, while offering meaningless thoughts and prayers every time there's a new mass shooting.
A child or adolescent is killed with a gun every 2 hours and 48 minutes in the U.S.
Age-adjusted firearm homicide rates in the U.S. are 33 times greater than in Australia and 77 times greater than in Germany
Every day, 125 Americans are killed with guns, and more than 200 are shot and wounded
Women in the U.S. are 28 times more likely to be killed with a gun than women in other high-income countries.
New Jersey has one of the lowest gun death rates in the country — just 4.0 per 100,000 people — because of strong gun safety laws. But these Republicans keep voting to weaken them.
Jeff Van Drew is OK with our kids dying, as long as he has his guns. We deserve better.
America is the land of FREEDOM. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to start a business, freedom to choose your own career path, freedom to make your own medical decisions, freedom to raise your children according to your values, and freedom to pursue happiness. Freedom is what makes America great.
Unless you're a woman and you're making the deeply personal decision about whether to have a baby or not. A decision that will dramatically affect the rest of your life. In that case Jeff Van Drew thinks that your freedom doesn't matter and that the government should get to control your body. That's not freedom, that's tyranny.
Jeff Van Drew:
Opposed Roe v. Wade
Supported federal efforts to ban abortion
Attacked Planned Parenthood throughout his career
Arkansas House of Representatives candidate (and pastor) Robb Ryerse stated it well: "Abortion should remain safe and legal. These are personal decisions best made by patients, their doctors, and their faith — not politicians. You don't have to agree with every decision someone makes to believe they should be free to make it. That's what personal liberty means." Almost 2/3 of Americans agree and believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. But Jeff Van Drew thinks he knows better, and doesn't believe that we should have the freedom to make our own decisions. We deserve better.
In America our vote represents our will. It gives us the power to make the change that we want to see in the world.
Unfortunately that's not a sentiment that Jeff Van Drew's billionaire and big business donors can stomach. Because when we have voting power, we use it to make our lives better, and they lose power. Read about all the ways they're trying to take away our voting power on our about page, then come back here.
Jeff Van Drew has opposed legislation to make voting easier while supporting the SAVE Act, which would force every single American citizen to prove their citizenship status in person when registering to vote or updating their voter registration information. For the vast majority of Americans, this would mean presenting a passport or birth certificate at their local election office. This would disenfranchise millions of U.S. citizens: 146 million Americans do not have a passport, and 69 million women who have married do not have a birth certificate that matches their new legal name. Working-class and low-income Americans would also be disproportionately disenfranchised if the bill became law, as the vast majority of these groups do not possess a passport.
YOU HAVE POWER. Why else do you think Jeff Van Drew and his bosses are working so hard to take it away? Don't let them. We deserve better.
Whether white, black, or brown, we should all be able to live in America and exercise our constitutional rights without fear that law enforcement will turn on us.
But the current administration has created a secret police force that is abusing their power against anyone who stands in their way, U.S. citizen or not. They claim to be going after "the worst of the worst", but are taking daycare workers, day laborers, grandmas and kids who are valued members of our communities. And Jeff Van Drew, staunch defender of the Second Amendment to fight back against government tyranny, is doing nothing while the government tyrannizes us.
ProPublica:They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world's most repressive regimes. ICE, in their view, has become an unfettered and unaccountable national police force.
ProPublica:Accosting people outside of their immigration court hearings where they're showing up and trying to do the right thing and then hauling them off to an immigration jail in the middle of the country where they can't access loved ones or speak to counsel. Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country, to a prison where there's a documented record of serious torture and human rights abuse.
New York Times:Masked and heavily armed, ICE agents are sent to cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles and Minneapolis to terrorize immigrant communities and brutalize people who challenge their efforts to stop and detain anyone deemed suspicious. To expand its reach, ICE greatly lowered its recruitment standards, effectively enlisting anyone who cares to sign up. To attract new officers, ICE advertises the chance to do violence to people deemed "enemies" of the United States, likening civil immigration enforcement to a war on a dangerous, alien force. The result is an agency whose agents' first recourse appears to be violence or the threat of violence.
They are executing American citizens. On January 7, 2026 an ICE agent in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a mother of 3, by shooting her in the face as she tried to drive away. Then the killer walked away, and our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened. Decent politicians condemned the murder. What did Jeff Van Drew have to say? Nothing.
They are executing American citizens: Part 2. On January 24, 2026 ICE agents in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a 37 year old ICU nurse, who was filming their activity and trying to help others. Then our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened.
And the list of the dead keeps growing. ICE agents — on duty and off — keep killing members of our communities, while Jeff Van Drew says nothing:
On December 31, 2025, an off-duty ICE officer in Northridge, Los Angeles shot and killed Keith Porter Jr., a 43-year-old U.S. citizen and father of two who was born and raised in Compton. Federal officials called it self-defense against an "active shooter," but Porter's family says he was peacefully returning home and never posed a threat — and witnesses reported only three shots, matching his autopsy and contradicting claims of an exchange of gunfire.
On July 7, 2026, an ICE officer in Houston shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old father of three and small-business owner who had lived in the U.S. for 35 years. Agents had been hunting a different white van. Harris County's medical examiner ruled his death a homicide, and his co-workers disputed ICE's claim that he used his vehicle as a weapon.
On July 13, 2026, an ICE agent in Biddeford, Maine shot and killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian father who was legally authorized to work in the U.S. and supported his wife and 3-year-old daughter by delivering food and cleaning a veterinary clinic. He was not the target of ICE's warrant — agents were looking for someone else — and were not wearing body cameras. Even Maine's Republican Senator Susan Collins urged DHS to halt non-urgent vehicle stops in the state.
It's happening here in New Jersey. ICE reopened Delaney Hall in Newark — the largest detention center on the East Coast — under a $1 billion contract with the private GEO Group. Detainees report moldy, maggot-ridden food and overcrowded cells with no air conditioning, and more than 80 people have been arrested protesting the conditions.
On one of these killings, Jeff Van Drew did not stay silent — he defended it. While Republican senators Bill Cassidy, Lisa Murkowski, and Thom Tillis were calling for independent investigations into the January 24 killing of Alex Pretti, Van Drew went on Fox News to argue Pretti was no peaceful protester: "Peaceful protesters don't have 9mm weapons with two extra magazines." The weapon he was describing was a concealed handgun Pretti held a permit to carry — and one that eyewitness video shows he never drew before federal agents shot him.
If ICE can murder innocent U.S. citizens without repercussions, what could they do to you? ICE is out of control and a danger to us all - no one is safe. What's Jeff Van Drew going to do about it? Absolutely nothing. We deserve better.
Voted for the Unnecessary and Unpopular War in Iran
War destroys human lives, families and innocent people, causes economic ruin, and triggers immense suffering. War should always be the option of last resort.
In order to distract from the Epstein Files, Donald Trump started an illegal war of choice with Iran, and now:
We are being dog-walked by Israel, who has been trying to convince presidents to attack Iran forever, and finally found one dumb enough to do so
Pro-Israel PACs, led by AIPAC, have given Jeff Van Drew $87,921.
The American people don't want this war with Iran. But Jeff Van Drew supports this madness and voted against the War Powers Resolution that would have stopped it. Does Jeff Van Drew work for Israel or the people of New Jersey? We deserve better.
Avoids His Constituents and Refuses to Hold In-Person Town Halls
Good leaders meet with their constituents and have town halls where citizens can voice concerns, ask questions, and provide input on policies. Jeff Van Drew doesn't want to hear what we have to say. He only wants to talk to his rich donors or people who agree with him.
His constituents want to talk to him anyway. On March 13, 2025, an estimated 600 people lined Tilton Road outside his Northfield office, demanding he protect Medicaid and Social Security. They brought written concerns to hand in at the door. When they arrived, the doors were locked and the entire building was closed.
Jeff Van Drew is avoiding us because he doesn't care what we think. We deserve better.
The record tells a different story. Van Drew switched parties at the exact moment being a Democrat stopped being useful to his reelection.
Van Drew ran for Congress in 2018 as a Democrat with the full backing of the South Jersey Democratic machine. The day Republican Rep. Frank LoBiondo announced his retirement in 2017, party boss George Norcross put out a statement saying he had encouraged Van Drew to run and was offering his full support. Democratic leaders had spent two decades tolerating his votes against same-sex marriage, against raising the minimum wage, and against gun control measures — because he could win a pro-Trump district.
Then he came out against impeaching Trump, and his Democratic support collapsed. He asked the district's county Democratic chairs to sign a letter of support for him, and many refused. His own campaign's internal poll — a copy of which Politico obtained — showed him deeply unpopular with Democrats in his district. Within days he announced he was becoming a Republican at an Oval Office event with Trump.
By Van Drew's own account, the trigger wasn't principle — it was ballot access. He says the Atlantic County Democratic chairman warned him that if he didn't vote for impeachment, he wouldn't get "the line," the favorable ballot placement that decides New Jersey primaries: "he says you're not going to get the line, in fact I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that you can't even run in Atlantic County." Van Drew's reaction: "That was a real sign to me."
Fellow New Jersey Democrats weren't fooled. In that same interview, NJ Spotlight News put it to him that Gov. Phil Murphy had called the switch "pathetic" and that State Senate President Steve Sweeney had called it a betrayal and said "Jeff is for Jeff."
The convictions went next. In that same interview, Van Drew insisted he hadn't abandoned his environmental record — "I believe that climate change is an issue" — and said he hoped to "influence" Trump on it. Five years later he was taking credit for drafting the executive order Trump used to freeze offshore wind development along the East Coast, with a lifetime League of Conservation Voters score of 29%.
How can New Jerseyans trust Jeff Van Drew to fight for their interests in Congress if he switches his political allegiance at the first sign of difficulty? We deserve better.
Hours after the Capitol attack, Van Drew voted to reject Biden's Electoral College win in Arizona and again in Pennsylvania — the only member of New Jersey's congressional delegation to vote for either objection.
We're all going to pay the price for this with increased rates of asthma, cancer, and premature deaths. We deserve better.
